CHROMOSOME in a Sentence

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For his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHROMOSOME
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chromosome
 n.  a structure in the cell nucleus that contains DNA
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1  The team suspects that a double dose of a particular gene on the Z chromosome is instead crucial for maleness, and that this gene is inactivated by high temperatures.
2  For his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933.
3  The scientists want to locate the position of the gene on a chromosome.